Tobacco-pipe



(No Model.)

T. B. WHITLEDGE, G. W. KENNER & M. RUEC-KERT.

TOBACCO PIPE.

No. 388,235. Patented Aug. 21, 1888.

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THOMAS E. XVHITLEDGE, GEORGE 'W.

KENNER, AND MICHAEL RUEOKERT,

OF ST. MARYS, MISSOURI.

TOBACCO=PIPE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 388,235, dated August21, 1888. Application filed September 13, 1 887. Serial No. 249,567. (Nomodel.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, THOMAS B. WHIT- LEDGE, GEORGE W. KENNER, andMioi-mnr. RUECKER-T, of St. Marys, in the county of Ste.

Genevieveand State of Missouri, haveinvented new and ImprovedTobacco-Pipes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The object of the present invention is to provide for the bowl of atobacco-pipe means for preventing the tobacco therein from fallingtherefrom, for pressing the tobacco more closely and compactly in thebowl, or for loosening the same if pressed too closely, and for scrapingand cleaning the bottom of the bowl. The invention consists in combiningwith an apertured cap various parts operating in relation to each other,the cap, and the interior of the pipe-bowl, all substantially ashereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a central section through the pipe-bowl, with its cap or lidshown as closed, and with the tobacco-presser and bowlcleaner as intheir uppermost position. Fig. 2 is a sectional View similar to Fig. 1,but showing the tobacco-presser and bowl-cleaner as pressed and held intheir lowermost position. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the pipe with its lidor cap shown as swung open, parts being broken away to better disclosethe construction, and Figs. 4 and 5 are views in detail, to behereinafter referred to.

In the drawings, A represents a tobaccopipe, of which 13 is the bowl,and O the stem, having the usual smoke drawing passage, a, entering thebowl at b.

D is a ring-plate having a flange, d, fitting and lying over the upperouter edge or periphery of the bowl, and to this ring-plate D, at apoint near to but inside of the line of the bowl- 5 stem, is hinged acap or lid, E, (here shown as of dome or hemispherical shape and asprovided with apertures or air-holesf.) This lid at its base has a web,g, passing from side to side thereof and across its axial line. An are5o ial spindle or pusher-rod, G, passes through bearings h h, formed byholes in the top of the cap and at the center of the web g, whichpusher-rod is provided at its upper end with a knob or button, j, andcarries at its lower end a disk, H, constituting the tobacco pusher orpresser. The disk H is provided with perforations k k, and between theupper side of the web 9 and a collar, Z, on the stem, inside of the cap,is disposed a spiral spring, on.

Rigidly secured to and projecting down- 6o wardly from a point near therim of the pushendisk is a bowl-cleaner arm, J, which is curved at itsfree end to lit the bottom of the bowl. The stem carrying thepusher-disk and cleaner-arm fitting loosely in the bearings h h, permitsa free rotation of said stem, and consequently of the disk H and arm J.

The pusher-stem G is provided with a thin radial projection, i, and inthe web 9 is formed a slot, i through which, when the stem is presseddownwardly, the shoulder 13 passes freely, and when the pusher-stem isforced downwardly, carrying therewith the pusherdisk and cleaner-arminto the lower portion of the bowl and partially rotated, its shoulderengages the under side of the web 9, and the stem is prevented frombeing forced upwardly, and this disposition of the pusher stem withinthe bowl, with its projecting knob 9' close to the top of the cap, asillustrated in Fig. 2, is desirable when the pipe is to be carried inthe pocket.

The lid E has a hooked projection, a, projecting downwardly therefrom,which, when the lid is closed, passes through a slot, 12, in the top ofring D and engages an arc-shaped bolt, q, having an outward projection,1, passing through a slot, 8, in the flange d of plate D, said bolt (1being adapted, through its project-ion r, to be moved backward andforward, in the one instance securing the lid closed upon the bowl, andin the other releasing it to be opened. The knob or button j andpusherdisk H are attached to the pushenstcni and the bowl-cleaning arm Jto the disk H by having screw-threads '6 formed thereon, so that byunscrewing said parts they may be removed and set aside, thereby leavingthe bowl simply covered by a hinged lid, as at all times it may not bedesirable to employ the tobacco-pusher and bowlscraper in connectionwith the pipe. It will be seen that the present invention aflo'rds tothe pipe, and as a part thereof, a ready means of tamping the tobaccotherein, loosening the same if too compactly pressed, of reaching theinterior walls and bottom of the pipe, and of preventing the tobaccosparks or ashes within the bowl from falling therefrom, and all withoutin any way interfering with the free operation of the pipe.

Having thus described our invention, what we clai m as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The c0mbination,with an apertured pipecap, of a pusher-rod, apresser-disk carried by said rod, a bowl-cleaning arm carried by saiddisk, and a retracting-spring, arranged for operation substantially asshown and de scribed.

2. The combination, with a ring adapted to fit a pipe-bowl, of anapertnred donie'shaped cap hinged thereto, a presser-rod held to slidein said cap, an apertured presser-disk carried by said rod, abowl-cleaning arm carried by said disk, a retracting-spring on said rod,and a spring catch on the cap and ring, substantially as and for thepurpose described.

3. The combination, with a cap hinged toa ring adapted to fit apipe-bowl and provided with a web, 9, said cap and web being aperturedto form bearings h, of a rod, G, provided with a shoulder, Z, a disk, H,a bowl cleaning arm, J, and aspring, at, substantially as and for thepurpose described.

4. The combination, with a cap hinged to a ring adapted to fit apipe-bowl and provided with a web, g, said cap and web being aperturedto form bearings h, and said web having slot 2', of a rod, G, providedwith shoulders l and i, a disk, H, a bowl-cleaning arm, J, and a spring,m, substantially as and for the purpose described.

. 5. The combination, with a pipe-bowl, of: an opening and closingapertured cover or lid provided with a pusher-stem having suitablebearings in said lid, and having secured thereto a bowl-cleaning arm, J,substantially as described.

6. The combination, with the pipe-bowl, of an opening and closingapertured cover or lid, a sliding pusher-stem having bearings in saidcover or lid, a spring for forcing said stem upward, and a bowl-cleaningarm connected to the pusher-stem, substantially as described.

7. The combination, with the pipe-bowl, of an opening and closingapertured cover or lid provided with a pusher stem having suitablebearings in said lid for movement with and against a springpressure, andhaving secured thereto a pusher-disk, H, and a bowl-cleaning arm, J,substantially as and for the purpose described.

8. The combination, with the pipe-bowl, of an opening and closingapertured lid or cover of dome shape provided with a pusher-stem havingbearings h h in said lid, provided with a pusher-disk, H, abowl-cleaning arm, and a spiral spring, m, arranged between ashoulder,l, on the pusher stem and the lower bearing, h, substantially as and forthe purpose described.

THOMAS E. WHITLEDGE. GEORGE W. KENNER. MICHAEL RUEGKER'I. Witnesses:

\ HENRY MYERs,

FERDNAND WAGNER.

